An Introduction to Our Staff

Here you will meet the Staff at Diving Enterprises. Our highly qualified staff is one of the key elements in making Diving Enterprises successful over the years. We've trained over 5,500 students, have logged over 20,000 combined dives, and have over 150 years of combined diving experience...and that's just our staff!

So now you might be asking yourself, "So how does this affect me?" When you sign up for SCUBA you are getting involved with a sport that can give a lifetime of fantastic experiences and great memories. It's not just SCUBA, it's traveling to exotic destinations around the world, enjoying great companions, making new friends, exploring the world above and below the surface. SCUBA is part of the adventure. That's where we fit in.

We know a lot about SCUBA, and we have the professional staff you want to get the highest regarded, most accepted, SCUBA certification in the world. But it doesn't stop there, our instructors and staff hold some of the most prestigious training certifications available and have decades of experience. Who better to have teaching you than someone who has been doing it for years. When it comes to deciding who you want training you, the obvious choice is Diving Enterprises. We invite you to meet our staff.

Ayers, Mel

Qualifications: OWSI, EMT, research Diver with Jacques Cousteau, former Dive Supervisor for Lynchburg College. All around nice guy
Types of Instruction: Scuba, Seal Team, Master Seal Team
Total Dives: 1100
Started Diving: Jan 23, 1963
Additional Info: Loves to teach kids. Certified one of the youngest (10) National Geographic Open Water Divers ever.

Bowman, Dave

Qualifications: PADI Instructor
Types of Instruction: OWSI
Total Dives: 1501
Started Diving: Jan 01, 1998
Additional Info:

Dodd, Ron

Qualifications: DM, Nitrox, Wreck, Deep
Types of Instruction: PADI
Total Dives: 105
Started Diving: Jun 02, 2002
Additional Info: Most interesting dive: Cooper river artifact hunting.

Dodson, Dave

Qualifications: OWSI
Types of Instruction: PADI
Total Dives: 523
Started Diving: May 15, 1999
Additional Info: Our country boy. Always in a good mood. Liked diving enough to marry another instructor. Best Dive: 7 Sisters in Fiji

Dunker, Ken

Qualifications: Store Owner, Course Director, Scuba Instructor, Parachute Rigger, Pilot

 

Types of Instruction: PADI  
Total Dives: over 7000  
Started Diving: Jul 01, 1968  
Additional Info: Additional Info: The Course Director rating is the equivalent of having a postgraduate degree in scuba diving instruction, there is not a more prestigious level of certification within the dive industry.
Best dives: Cave diving in Akumal, wreck diving the Andrea Doria.
 

Dunker, Mary

Qualifications: Store Owner, OWSI, MSDT, IDC Staff, Cave Diver, Technical Diver, Equestrian

Types of Instruction: Scuba, DiveMasters, Assistant Instructors,  
Total Dives: 905  
Started Diving: Apr 15, 1994  
Additional Info: Some of her favorite dives: Cave Diving Akumal, Darwin's Arch Galapagos, Many sites in Bonaire  

Field, Dawn

Qualifications: Divemaster

 

Types of Instruction: PADI  
Total Dives: about 400  
Started Diving: Oct 15, 1998  
Additional Info: Favorite Dives: Darnwin's Arch Galapagos Islands, Yongola Australia, Bari Reef Bonaire, Eagle Ray Roundup on Bloody Bay Wall  

Field, Rich

Qualifications: Divemaster, Web Master

 

Types of Instruction: PADI  
Total Dives: about 400  
Started Diving: Oct 15, 1998  
Additional Info: Favorite Dives: Darnwin's Arch and Wolf Island Galapagos Islands, Yongola Australia, USS Coolidge Vanuatu, Bloody Bay Wall Cayman Islands, 7 Sisters Fiji, Karpata Bonaire, Anenome-City Coral Sea  

Grigg, Allen

Qualifications: OWSI, MSDT, Cave Diver, Techncal Diver, Research Diver
Types of Instruction: Scuba, DiveMaster
Total Dives: 2185
Started Diving: Jun 12, 1995
Additional Info: Best Dive: Little River - Most interesting project: Research diving in South Holston Lake

Owens, Mickey

Qualifications: OWSI, MSDT, IDS Staff, Master Instructor, Technical Instructor, EFR, Teacher, Chess Instructor
Types of Instruction: PADI
Total Dives: over 5000
Started Diving: Jan 01, 1995
Additional Info:

Prillaman, Anthony

Qualifications: Advanced Open Water
Started Diving:    
Additional Info: Favorite Dives: Blue Hole, Belize. Isla Mujeres, Mexico  

Stancil, Chandie

Qualifications: DM, Wreck, Nitrox
Types of Instruction: PADI DiveMaster
Total Dives:
Started Diving: Apr 01, 2002
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Studenic, Ethan

Qualifications: Instructor

 

Types of Instruction: PADI  
Total Dives: Over 150  
Started Diving: June, 2005  
Additional Info: Staff Instructor who likes to travel. Currently attending college while working part-time  

Wilson, Todd

Qualifications: OWSI, MSDT, Cave Diver
Types of Instruction: Scuba, MSDT, Emergency First Response
Total Dives: 1537
Started Diving: Oct 03, 1993
Additional Info: Best Dives: Bonaire, Cave dive at Little River

Wooten, James

Qualifications: Master Scuba Diver
Types of Instruction:
Total Dives: 87
Started Diving: Jun 30, 2002
Additional Info: